On Nov 28, 2007 1:07 PM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
> on Nov 28, 2007 4:22 AM, warpme <warpme at o2.pl> wrote:
> > Do somebody have experience with this LCD TV, GF5200 and driving it to 1080 HD modes ?
> > From NV forums I know there is some issues with proper driving this TV to 1080i.
> > Also, is it possible to drive it to 1080p ?
> > What is native matrix resolution in this TV: isn't it 1920x540 ?
>> While I can't help with these questions, I can offer one suggestion:
> Upgrade the video card.
>> in my experience, a card with slow DDR like the 5200 series cards,
> have a hard time (tearing) with the memory bandwidth involved in
> 1080i/1080p modes. Upgrading to an (nvidia) card with DDR2/DDR3 can
> help a lot.
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Are you sure that was your issue? That's the first I've ever heard
that. Everything I can recall ever reading indicated that the 5200
cards are perfectly fine for mythtv at HD resolutions. I can't say
firsthand, as I have a GeForce 7100GS. Since I needed PCI-e only
newer chipsets were an option for me.
Tom